Here's what I'm dealing with. One of our programs has a support form that users use to request support. What this form does is, it performs an HTTP POST request to a PHP script that's supposed to collect the info and forward it to the support e-mail address.
The POST request contains three text fields of the type Content-Type: text/plain
which can be easily read in PHP using $_POST['fieldname']
. Some of the content in this POST request, however, are files, of type Content-Type: application/octet-stream
. Using $_POST
doesn't seem to work with these files. How do I go about reading the contents of these files?
Thank you in advance.
You have to use the $_FILES superglobal:
$contents = file_get_contents($_FILES['myfile']['tmp_name']);
You can find more information in the manual. This will only work if you are using multipart/form-data encoding in your request.
You can otherwise read the raw POST data, then parse it yourself:
$rawPost = file_get_contents('php://input');
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